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Location Denmark • Eider River • Germany
Participants Austria • Denmark • Holstein • Prussia • Schleswig
Context Napoleonic Wars

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Frederick VII
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Carl Christian Hall, detail of an oil painting by J.V. Gertner, 1864; in Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark
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Christian IX
Christian IX
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Knud Kristensen
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